Creating a VM with own network settings

[PikaBadger]

Hey guys,

I'm attempting to create a virtual machine in VirtualBox...in which I wish to install a software called Cisco NAC Agent (aka Cisco Clean Access) for testing purposes. The VM would run either Windows XP or Windows 7.

The Cisco Agent where I work only comes up if the machine is receiving a 10.105 ip address..anything else and the NAC Agent won't ask for login.


My main machine is a mac, it doesn't require the NAC agent to run. The main machine gets the 10.105 ip address and has internet connectivity with no issue.

Usually when I set up a VM, the internet connection is shared from the main OS, I wish to stop that and have the guest OS receive a unique 10.105 ip address so that the Cisco NAC agent may come up and I may do my testing.

Would it be possible to accomplish this? How would I go about doing this? Thank you in advance for your help.

[BillG]

The way to do that is to set the networking to bridged. The vm will then get its network config from DHCP on the physical network (just as the host does).

Not that this may fail if your corporate LAN is configured to limit each LAN port to one IP or one MAC, or to issue IPs only to registered MAC addresses. If this happens you will need to consult your network team.

[PikaBadger]

Thank you bill

I will go ahead and try that.

I'm guessing I just change it to BRIDGED, and leave the rest of the settings unchanged?